Sturgill Simpson’s Sophomore Album Due 5/13; Jean Shepard Working on Her Book; Infamous Stringdusters Release New Video

Juli Thanki | February 21st, 2014

Jean Shepard has been working for quite a while on a book called Down Through the Years. Fingers crossed it gets released sooner rather than later.

Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music will be released on May 13. Listen to “Living the Dream” and take a peek at the tracklisting (which includes a pretty sweet cover of one hit wonder When In Rome’s “The Promise”) here.

The Infamous Stringdusters released a video for “Let It Go,” the title track of their new album, which comes out April 1.

Out April 8: Linda Ronstadt’s The Duets, a compilation that includes collaborations with Dolly Parton (“I Will Never Marry”), Emmylou Harris (“I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You)”), Carl Jackson (“The New Partner Waltz”), Laurie Lewis (a previously unreleased version of “Pretty Bird”) and more. (via press release)

Juli Thanki is the editor of Engine 145 and a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, Bluegrass Unlimited, and M Music & Musicians Magazine. In 2011 she received the International Bluegrass Music Association Print Media Person of the Year award.

@Andrew – Wyoming was not the only state left blank. The article explains that “Presumably the blanks are because those states just didn’t have any musicians who cracked the RIAA top 250, but still, the redditor in question could have done some research and picked some artists who are associated with their states”.

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February 21, 2014 at 3:08 pm

Is that gonna be the version of the Soggy Bottom Boys that has George Clooney in it? Because, if it is, I’m planning a small road trip….